It's a fairly standard list, although you'll often see people being forced to use IE6. Some of these restrictions need to be relaxed for developers, and they usually are in my experience.
My favourite restriction was one corporate that had blocked the use of the right-mouse button. Beat that! Cheers Kerry On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:24 AM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > I am curious... I work for a large software vendor and our policies > are: > > -windows only (XP) > -outside IM is banned (we have internal jabber server) > -mandatory software that tracks every piece of software installed on > your machine > -manual proxy that tracks every outgoing web url (no banned urls tho) > -skype is strictly forbidden > -no use of SaaS software for company information > -virus checker on every machine, including servers (kills performance > on builds) > -encrypted harddrives > -itunes is banned > -VPN policy forces all traffic to be routed over internet > > The reasons behind this are supposedly that the company must track all > information for legal purposes. > > So I'm curious - do companies like Google, Oracle, Microsoft, Intel > have policies like this? > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
